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Grow returns with timber

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... manager. "Moreover, if prices for fossil energy continue to soar in the long term, timber's option value as a future CO2 neutral energy source increases steadily, since wood is a likely candidate for so called second generation biofuels, based on lingo-cellulose." ...

Hedge funds to beat

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... Fund Winner Mathews Sabre Fund Finalist H3 Japan Fund Finalist Portfolio Partners High Growth Shares Trust Best Market Neutral Fund Winner Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund Finalist Fortitude Capital Absolute Returns Trust Finalist BGI Total Return - ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... are broadly overweight in cash relative to fixed interest, a little bit underweight in international equities and have a neutral weighting in Australian equities. Over the short term, she said that clients are also putting money in distressed credit ...

Aviva matches green rebates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
Aviva Australia employees could receive an extra $300 in their pay cheque after the firm announced it is matching the state and federal government's water efficiency and renewable energy rebates. Aviva analyst programmer, Barry Holmes, has already recieved ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... leave rates unchanged overnight despite the continuing threat of higher prices, indicate that this stance have shifted to neutral and should pave the way for an eventual easing in the coming months. The state of the UK economy has been worsening with ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release June Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Australian Equities team. Wells joins GMO from Macquarie Investment Management, where he was senior portfolio manager of style neutral Australian equity funds. In his new role, Wells will participate in all aspects of managing GMO's Australian equity ...

Fujitsu and tradeslot sign carbon mgmt deal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Fund managers and super funds at a loss on how to quantify the costs of going carbon neutral or want to analyse their carbon footprint can look to a new carbon management platform developed by IT group tradeslot with the backing of Fujitsu Consulting. ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... expected to increase coal-generated electricity prices by around 17 per cent. But this could create an incentive for carbon neutral electricity to compete head to head at a considerable price discount, the theory being that traditional power companies ...

Westscheme tackles ESG with Regnan

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... Westscheme after appointing specialist advisor Regnan to help screen its investment options. Westscheme currently uses a style neutral enhanced index approach to managing Australian equities, which does not explicitly take into account ESG issues in ...